Dive deeper

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Spoiler warning! This page contains details about Fallen London Actions.

From: A Cabin-Fragment, A Reef of Wrecks, A Shattered Prow, Among the Deep-Fish, An Obscured Glitter, Easy Pickings, Old Wounds, Tangled in the Rigging, Unlucky Prisoner, Well-Disguised Trinkets, or A Rusting Anchor

Something glints further in the deep. Unknown treasures lurk in the black fathoms below.

Game Instructions: Success will clear your hand, allowing you to draw a new selection of treasures. Failure will end your dive, and inflict some menaces.

Unlocked with Full Fathom Five 1-4

Challenge information

Narrow, Burning Breath 5 (50% base)

• 2 and below - almost impossible (0%)
• 3 - almost impossible (10%)
• 4 - high-risk (30%)
• 5 - very chancy (50%)
• 6 - modest (70%)
• 7 - low-risk (90%)
• 8 and above - straightforward (100%)
  

Success

Katabasis

Down and down and down, into the blackly-luminous fog. The zee here is thick with obstacles, with treasure, with lurching silhouettes.

[…]

Description summary:
The second paragraph varies based on Full Fathom Five.

Full Fathom Five	Second Paragraph
2	Fronds and vines reach up towards the weak light of the Neath above. Below, there is no such grasping; plants and beasts alike waft directionless, heedless of the vicissitudes of gravity or buoyancy. There is still some weak light here[…]
3	Direction holds little meaning. […] the light of the False-Stars has faded into nothing. […] If you had to swim to the surface, you are not sure you would pick the right direction – were it not for your impossible candle, whose flame dances always upwards.
4	Everything appears rounded, and soft.[…]rock and metal look as though they might give under your palm […] Erosion has imparted on everything the illusion of intangibility – but rock is […] rock, and you graze your knee on your descent. The darkness presses in […]
5	By the guttering light of your candle, you make out a gaping cavern. This is the bottom of the trench; this is the beginning of something else. An unshakable feeling settles in your bones: you are being watched.

[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]

•  Deeper, deeper. (Raises Full Fathom Five by 1)
•  The flame of breath flickers. (Lowers Burning Breath by 1)
• This branch clears your hand. (hidden)

Failure

Mercy withdrawn

You make oars of your palm and pull yourself deeper, your legs frog-leaping through the abyss. […] Your sickly candle-flame flickers and gutters […]

The Peligin-Eyed Lobsterman stands over you on the beach. […] "Careful," he says sadly. […]

Description summary:
You dive deeper still, when your candle flickers out. You have a near-death-experience of drowning, until you come to at the beach. The Peligin-Eyed Lobsterman has seemingly pulled you out at the last minute and is now assessing you.

[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]

• You have moved to a new area: Mutton Island
• You have moved to a new setting: Southern Archipelago (hidden)
•  Up, up, up, out of the crushing black. (Removes Full Fathom Five)
•  The flame of breath flickers. (Removes Burning Breath)
•  Nightmares is increasing… (+2 CP)
•  Wounds is increasing… (+2 CP)
•  An occurrence! Your 'Potential Thalassic Favour' Quality is now ( Witch-Stone × 10) + ( Collection of Zee-Glass × 20) + ( Salt-Smoothed Shiv × 50) + ( Sodden Mass × 100) + (min( Skull in Coral, 10) × 125) + ( Urchin Spine × 125) + ( Long-Lost Zee Trunk × 200) + (max( A Cured Jillyfleur Cloak - 1, 0) × 100) + (max( Wrecking Boots - 1, 0) x 100) + (max( Nuncian Pocket Watch - 1, 0) × 150) + (max( Semi-Automated Mary Lloyd - 1, 0) × 200) + (max( A Faceted Decanter of Drownie Effluvia - 1, 0) × 300) + (max( Scrimshander Carving Knife - 1, 0) × 400)! (hidden)